{"id":33335,"date":"2017-01-10T13:44:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T21:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/positron-dynamics-paves-the-road-to-the-final-frontier"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:20:42","slug":"positron-dynamics-paves-the-road-to-the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/positron-dynamics-paves-the-road-to-the-final-frontier","title":{"rendered":"Positron Dynamics Paves the Road to the Final Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/positron-dynamics-paves-the-road-to-the-final-frontier.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever since Jules Verne and before \u2014 perhaps as early as the 5th century B.C. \u2014 writers, philosophers and scientists have brought fantasies to life about spaceships carrying humans to other planets, solar systems and galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the potential targets, only the moon thus far has hosted Earthling \u201cboots on the ground.\u201d Next on most wish lists is Mars. NASA\u2019s tentative schedule designates the first manned mission sometime around 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the formidable task of designing a safe, efficient vehicle to transport people and supplies, such a mission \u2014 depending on the positions of the two planets and other logistics \u2014 would take in the neighborhood of nine months each way. Not only is that a long trip, but it would also expose the human body to ambient space radiation for close to a year. Can\u2019t this travel time, many have asked, be cut down somehow?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/dissected-by-propel-x\/positron-dynamics-paves-the-road-to-the-final-frontier-d00e60133b67#.dpp8cwpoo\">https:\/\/medium.com\/dissected-by-propel-x\/positron-dynamics-p....dpp8cwpoo<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Jules Verne and before \u2014 perhaps as early as the 5th century B.C. \u2014 writers, philosophers and scientists have brought fantasies to life about spaceships carrying humans to other planets, solar systems and galaxies. Of all the potential targets, only the moon thus far has hosted Earthling \u201cboots on the ground.\u201d Next on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59202,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335\/revisions\/59202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}